Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 260 pages)
ISBN:
9780203717561
,
9781135689209
,
9781135689278
,
9781135689346
Serie:
Planning, history and environment series
Inhalt:
1. Introduction / Stephen Marshall -- 2. A chronicle of urban codes in pre-industrial London's streets and squares / Nick Green -- 3. The controlling urban code of enlightenment Scotland / Charles McKean -- 4. The ideal and the real : urban codes in the Spanish-American lettered city / Jean-Francois Lejeune -- 5. Paradigms for design : the Vastu Vidya codes of India / Vibhuti Sachdev -- 6. Prescribing the ideal city : building codes and planning principles in Beijing / Qinghua Guo -- 7. Machizukuri and urban codes in historical and contemporary Kyoto / Yoshihiko Baba -- 8. Adelaide's urban design : pendular swings in concepts and codes / Barrie Shelton -- 9. Coding in the French planning system : from building line to morphological zoning / Karl Kropf -- 10. Coding as 'bottom-up' planning : developing a new African urbanism / Gerald Steyn -- 11. How codes shaped development in the United States, and why they should be changed / Jonathan Barnett -- 12. Conclusions / Stephen Marshall.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-254) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415441261
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415441278
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415441261
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203717561
